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Egypt declared malaria-free after 100-year effort

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536 points thunderbong | 1 comments | 21 Oct 24 12:51 UTC | HN request time: 0.205s | source
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dotancohen ◴[21 Oct 24 14:24 UTC] No.41904529[source]▶
Do other states in the area have malaria? How and when were they resolved?
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pmontra ◴[21 Oct 24 15:01 UTC] No.41904939[source]▶
On the north shore of the Mediterranean sea Italy got malaria free by removing many swamps and flooded lowlands, quinine and eventually by using DDT. It was a very long effort, more that one century long. Details at https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3340992/
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dsign ◴[21 Oct 24 17:14 UTC] No.41906186[source]▶
How dare they? Mosquitoes are a vital part of the ecosystems. And they should restore the swamps too. Now, that DDT perversion, for that alone they deserve a second flood.

Sarcasm aside, I love swamps and I hate mosquitoes, other bugs and crocodiles because they don't let me enjoy the swamp. I also don't like cities nor agriculture for the same reason. But I like people and people being happy.

Humanism and environmentalism are at odds more often than they are not.

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1. TeMPOraL ◴[21 Oct 24 18:10 UTC] No.41906743[source]▶
> Humanism and environmentalism are at odds more often than they are not.

It gets less surprising when people realize that nature is red in tooth and claw, an uncaring shithole we're evolutionary conditioned to find pretty - at least the parts we see. Beautiful meadows and happy animals and careless people are just propaganda - in reality, the people are sick and busy with back-breaking work, and animals are all on the verge of starvation, and that doesn't even touch the microbiological scale. Ecological balance is achieved by means that, when applied to balance between humans, we'd call unending war of attrition.

Humanism and environmentalism are at odds because nature doesn't care about humans anymore than it cares about anything else. Brutal death and constant suffering are hallmarks of nature.